Global Food Scarcity: Poverty and Waste

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World food and poverty issues
Poverty all around the world is a threat that is demolishing countries and is spreading daily. Food water and agriculture is what the whole world needs to sustain life on earth without these things there would be nothing. famine in some parts of the world is killing people and is happening more than we think.things like drought is changing how farmers make their money and their families. America 's food problem isn 't as bad as other countries instead they throw away good food that could have been eaten.Maybe the problem is with the food industry and food standards that the FDA put in place. Also why this problem in the usa won 't change because most americans can afford it. With many more years to come the population …show more content…

Best buy dates on food is really about quality rather than safety purposes. "where people feel comfortable throwing out food that is likely still edible just because they can afford to".(ferdman 2).One of the main reason why America throws away 35 million tons of food a year is because most people in the usa can afford to do so. even though there are people in the usa that are suffering with poverty the amount of food thrown away could feed them and other countries going through world …show more content…

In other countries all around the world their problem are different like in jamaica they have been in a drought causing all types of problem for there country. Since when a country goes through drought the people of the land can 't grow food or have enough water to survive on. Because without water no food also animals die and suffer. “...more than 18,000 small farmers have been affected by the extreme drought that has been plaguing the country for months”(brown). Said in Brown 's story there are more than 18,000 farmers that are feeling the affect of the region 's

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